Many have made the observation that Democrats DO NOT LIKE being laughed at. The Good People should not be mocked! Guess that observation is valid, at least in Omaha city council chambers.

I’m not one to get into public brawls with frightened people even if I think their fears are ignorant, but there’s a limit to how elaborate a ritual I’ll engage in to assuage their feelings. Also, there’s something to be said for sending a consistent message to incipient bullies (in government and otherwise) that there will be consistent pushback. I don’t wear my mask anywhere any more unless someone comes up to me and makes a point of it. I think the number of people willing to go to that trouble is constantly shrinking, but that’s only because they’re slowly learning that it’s futile. Some of them never would have stopped otherwise.

I categorically refused the hand-sanitizer ritual from the beginning. I don’t fight about it, I just say pleasantly but firmly “No, thank you.” In 15 months, I’ve had to make it an explicit refusal only three times, and in all three cases, the person let it go. Most seemed to think they were offering a service, not issuing an order. Saying “No, thank you” strengthens that understanding and promotes healthy ideas about who gets to make decisions about one’s own body. Frightened people too easily drift into assumptions that they’re entitled to control the entire world in order to grapple with their uncontrolled fear.

The emperor has no clothes in Omaha.

OMG! Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Our old friend, common sense, has has passed away.

om/Griffin: Inslee as climate czar? Yeah, I can see it. He’s basically devout enough. Would Denny Heck move up? A special, election? The state Dems would make sure a replacement would be a True Believer and on the dim bulb side. They like things the way they are. Fools!